Seven-Week
Run of Blockbuster Domain Sales Ends But Over 30 Solid Five-Figure
Sales Were Booked

After seven straight weeks with at
least one six-figure (or higher) domain sale reported, the
streak was snapped this week. Still, it was a respectable outing for
the domain aftermarket with 32 solid five-figure sales
reported. Afternic
rang up the two highest of those - Xylem.com at $47,100
and BXE.com at $40,000.

Sedo
nailed down the #3 slot on our latest weekly all extension Top 20
Sales Chart with PremierOutlets.com at $26,000. NameJet
followed with #4 Meifa.com at $25,655 and they went on
to pile up nine of the 22 chart entries (the extra two positions
resulted from a two for the final opening).

Afternic rounded out the first five with PatriotSecurity.com
at $25,000, giving them three of the week's five biggest
sales and five chart entries overall.

Chart honors also went to MostWantedDomains.com
for #7 TeethInADay.com at $22,500 and to MissDomain.com
for the week's biggest ccTLD sale, #10 Lakrits.se
("licorice" in Swedish)" at $19,341.

By
Ron Jackson

That was one of three country code domains
that qualified for the elite list. Sedo had the other two - #12 MoneyCard.co.uk
at $16,001 and #18 Vimla.se at $13,000 - and
they went on to rack up six chart entries overall.

The non .com gTLDs were limited to
one chart entry - NameJet's $14,000 sale of #17 DWI.org.
The .coms swept the rest of the board, ringing up 18 of the 22
charted sales.

While no six-figure (or larger) cash sales
were reported this week, George Kirikos uncovered two big domain transactions while going through SEC filings. In
one of those from May
2013, he learned that when Move Inc. acquired the
business assets of Doorsteps.com for $2.3 million they
assigned $1 million of that price to the value of the
domain.
In another filing from June
2013 George discovered that public company Snap
Interactive had acquired the domain name AYI.com for $100,000
in stock to use as an abbreviation for their AreYouInterested.com
domain.

While we don't consider domains that have
been acquired as part of a business, or those purchased with stock
or other non-cash instruments, as pure domain sales that we can
chart, the valuations provide additional insight into how some
corporations value specific domain names. Thanks to George for
bringing these to our attention.

Now, here is how all of the
sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 11:

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

There were ten more five-figure sales off the
chart (four of those being ccTLDs) led by a pair of Sedo sales - Archive.me and SpringMe.com
at $12,000 each. They also moved Aphrodite.com for $11,700,
SolidParts.pl for $11,305 and Next.co.kr for $10,640.
Family.co and
OnMySkin.com added $10,000 apiece.

Elsewhere Moniker/SnapNames
sold Youmin.com for $11,749 while NameJet sold PieceOfCake.com
for $10,369 and FountainPens.com for $10,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting
cast of four-figure sales with ISellCars.com at $9,029
and HireFly.com at $8,800. MultiSale.com
added $7,980, SmartHeadphone.com fetched $7,500
and Vipo.com produced $7,210.

SmartMe.com made $6,650, MTrading.com
took in $6,000 and WellClub.com went for $5,500.
Fixion.com and ItList.com landed $5,000 apiece and
SELT.com secured $4,999. Sedo had 39 more four-figure .com sales
ranging from $2,000 to $4,500 that are
listed in the table below:

The ccTLDs had another very solid
week led by the seven five-figure sales you saw in the
all-extension section above.The biggest sale from this
category that you haven't seen yet is #8 on our
latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Benchmark.co.uk,
a domain that changed hands through Sedo for $8,525.

Rounding out the top ten are #9 Wetter.lu
at $7,980 and #10 MyJar.co.uk at $7,294.
Sedo also handled those two sales as they swept 19 of the 20
chart entries - the only exception being the #1 domain - Lakrits.se
- sold by MissDomain.com for $19,341.

Germany's .de led the extension race with
five chart entries followed by Great Britain's .uk with
four. The only other TLDs with multiple chart entries were
Sweden's .se, Montenegro's .me and the European
Union's .eu with two each.

Here is how the country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, August 11:

There were several dozen more four-figure
ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for the lion's
share of those including Vitmin.de ($3,192), Frauenromane.de
($3,165) and Gesundheitszeugnis.de ($2,926).

Fanuc.be and MMO.us added $2,660
apiece and Llantas.com.co kicked in $2,526. Sedo had 33 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging
from $1,000 to $2,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,500

mlbshop.cn

$2,500

ian.kr

$1,330

fxx.ca

$1,999

pare-feu.fr

$1,330

casinoschule.de

$1,995

président.be

$1,330

cmb.de

$1,995

burj.ae

$1,300

cola.at

$1,995

ayi.eu

$1,297

lcs.de

$1,995

aed.in

$1,250

mediatheques.fr

$1,995

doo.me

$1,250

marketer.de

$1,862

brotaufstrich.de

$1,244

forces.tv

$1,860

ocho.co

$1,200

med.co.uk

$1,798

edge.cc

$1,199

oxv.fr

$1,729

netbet.gr

$1,197

soziale-berufe.de

$1,729

terravision.it

$1,197

menskopp.se

$1,663

youand.co.uk

$1,163

waterkaart.nl

$1,663

clin.ch

$1,131

careerbuilder.mx

$1,500

atalantacalcio.ru

$1,064

jtl.eu

$1,356

wally.me

$1,000

danystar.it

$1,330

NetFleet.com.au
sold six Australian domains at this level including Vocation.com.au
at $2,742 and three others - iBargain.com.au,
iBargains.com.au and MelbourneVirtualOffice.com.au
at $1,797 each. They also sold SolarPanels.com.au
($1,246) and Titanium.com.au ($1,146).

Elsewhere
NameJet sold A.pw for $2,500, as well as B.pw
and F.pw at $2,000 each. Afternic moved BlueBee.co.uk
for $1,500 and Golem.eu sold SafeCity.eu
for $1,120. Also, OwnThisDomain.co.uk
earned $1,008 for OnlyNatural.co.uk.

If there are country code extensions in our report
that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each
extension goes with here.

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

For he second week in a row the non. com gTLDs were led by the
category's lone five-figure sale (and for the second week in a
row the chart leader was a .org). This time it was DWI.org
at $14,000 via NameJet. #2 GHS.net at $6,000, #3
KeyWest.net at $5,800
and #4 ASM.net at $4,000 rounded out the first
four on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart.

Afternic sold GHS.net and ASM.net and went on to
sweep 15 of the 20 chart entries. Moniker/SnapNames had the
KeyWest.net sale. Afternic piled up 8 of the top 10 sales
including #5 JobApplication.net ($3,888) and #6 NetScout.org
($3,588).

The .nets won the extension race with 12 chart entries, followed by the .orgs with
eight.
Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, August 11:

Back at Sedo the hit list included ThemeForest.org
($1,609), Car2Go.net ($1,463) and GNY.net ($1,395).
FactFinding.net found $1,277, SpeakingForACause.org
added $1,250 and Alabaster.info brought $1,144.
ZET.info zipped up $1,063 and two others - NanaimoHotels.net
and Poker1.net - pitched in $1,000 apiece.

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.

*****

As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies,
private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale
made through any channel. To contribute information and help make
this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.
We truly appreciate the industry leading
companies who share their sales information
with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current
domain values.

Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name
sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us
their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that
information and write this article to give
you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry.

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.